Design-thinking and Concept-building Workshops
Helping teams and individuals navigate change
and build new competencies through facilitation, training and guidance
About Design-Thinking in English
About concept development
Empathize - Define - Ideate - Prototype - Test
and build new competencies through facilitation, training and guidance
About Design-Thinking in English
About concept development
Empathize - Define - Ideate - Prototype - Test
What is design-thinking?
- Design thinking is a human-centered, iterative approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding real user needs, generating possible solutions, and testing them quickly to reduce risk before committing resources.
See problem-solving methods and ideation techniques in practice
Design-thinking methods include but not limited by
- Defining the problem properly
- Outlining customer journey
- Brainstorming
- Sketching and prototyping
- Testing and validating solutions
“I believe that human creativity will continue to play a crucial role as AI evolves.”
— Mike Peng
— Mike Peng
Resources
Methodologies
I have background in UX, Teaching and Digital Media
- Design-thinking and human-centered designI believe in those methods that proved their efficiency in driving innovation in companies as IBM, HPI, SMBC, AirBnb, UberEats, Shimano, etc.
- Agile Principles and MindsetI am certified in Agile (including facilitation for SAFe) and enhance team dynamics through fostering collaboration, and implementing effective communication strategies like regular feedback and some team-building exercises
- Modern tools and experimentationI use modern tools and promote experimentation. Participants will learn how to frame ideas as experiments and bring others along on your creative vision.
Training experience
- Expertise in EUI ran a dozen of workshops of different kinds: started with workshops needed for Agile adoption on my Tech projects, continued with 7+ of problem-solving workshops at Globant and then, inspired by the local Agile community, organised concept-building and design-thinking workshops together with partner companies and independently.
- Recent Upskilling and Certification
- AI Design-Thinking (Julia Lettinger course) - certificate (2026)
- Innovation and Commercialization, 5-weeks program by Riga Business School and UniLab
SMBC Hackathon (Dubai, London, Berlin), January 2025 - Resources and SupportI use Facilitators guides (Design KIT, SAFe materials and others).
Every participant receives a number of digital templates and handouts that are either custom content assets or content from recognized sources for activities covering all stages of Design Thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
Read more here: https://dschool.stanford.edu/, https://www.ideo.com/.
And in Polish: https://designthinking.pl/, https://thisisdesignthinking.net/
https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration.
As a Facilitator, I am responsible for creating a great learning experience for people new to design-thinking methods, so I encourage participants to roll up their sleeves and learn by doing. This requires some comfort and discomfort at the same time. I value complementary strengths and differing perspectives, and I put my energy into creating a space where people feel safe, trusted, and responsible for the outcome together.
Who are my workshops for?
Additional value
Using the method of observation I help identify team members with leadership capabilities and give advice on how to mentor & grow them.
- Cross-functional teams working with tech products
- Teams in Businesses in the domains of: Web3, Banking (teaching to launch POC and initiatives in Sustainability), Beauty (product concepts in AI content tools), EdTech (universities, colleges) and others.
- Project managers and UX/UI designers.
Additional value
Using the method of observation I help identify team members with leadership capabilities and give advice on how to mentor & grow them.
My work at three Global hackathons
Results at SMBC:
- London
- Dubai
- Frankfurt
Results at SMBC:
- Over 15 POCs produced by the end of three days with one winning solutions selected by the company board by the end of months.
Concept-building workshop, Agile By Example, October 2024
or Ask for a Syllabus for both types of workshops (response within 48h)
